Show Business: No Tears

In the late '50s and early '60s, the world was struck by a catastrophe:
thousands of babies were born with grotesque deformities, no arms or
legs, or at best, flipper-like appendages. The cause was traced to a
sleep-inducing drug that the mothers had been taking during
pregnancythalidomide. The U.S. escaped the disaster only because of
the determination of a doctor at the Food" and Drug Administration
who suspected that something was wrong with the drug. This British
program is about one of thalidomide's victims and what...